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Monero (XMR) Mining on Ubuntu Linux 15.04

This isn’t an endorsement of Monero. Just one of the many crypto-currencies (kind of like BitCoin) out there that I’m playing with. I find Monero interesting because the project expresses the intent to make their currency untraceable.

There do seem to be some graphical wallets in the works but the main site recommends using MyMonero as a way to get a wallet set-up quickly.

Assumptions:

I’ll make the assumption you are running Ubuntu, are an sudo’er on your system, are familiar with git and/or github and have a Monero wallet address where you can send your mined coins. And, of course, you should be able to use this address to send and receive coins, too.

OK, the direction posted by the developers on github are pretty good. But, if you are running an Ubuntu system like me you may not have all the required development libraries installed in order to complete the compile and make process. I figure it doesn’t really hurt to have more dev libraries and tools than you need so I installed many of the usual suspect.

Again, you probably don’t need all that stuff but it doesn’t hurt. From this point the directions provided by the developers are pretty straight forward — and you don’t need to be root to complete most of these steps:

Now to make life simple — and ensure that your miner starts up when you reboot — it is useful to make a simple shell script and then add it to your crontab. (We’ll make the assumption that the cpuminer-multi folder you pulled from github is in your home directory and that is where you will put your script.)

vi monero ## Or, use whatever editor you like to create the monero file and enter the contents:

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8 thoughts on “Monero (XMR) Mining on Ubuntu Linux 15.04”

Good step-by-step instructions!
Just to share for others: “sudo aptitude install –with-recommends” is meant to be
“sudo aptitude install –with-recommends” meaning *double dash”
Same for “./minerd –help”.
Regards to all the cryptocurrency pioneers out there.